M.i.a. 'Sunshowers' - like garridge meets Bow Wow Wow - a beat as implacably, anempathically mechanoid as that of 'I Love U', a sang-spoken refrain as dreamily addictive as anything off 'Mutant Disco'...
Rachel Stevens 'Some Girls' - finally heard it. It lives up to the hype and then some...
Posted by mark at June 21, 2004 05:32 PM | TrackBackSounds interesting, where did you hear it? I know she is a Sri Lankan Tamil, whose family were refugees from Jaffna, settling in South London/Surrey
Posted by: murray at June 22, 2004 01:59 PMThe video for "Some Girls" (which starts out looking like a tribute to your favorite Dr Who episode) can be found on her website. Like the song it starts as sparkly pop fun but doesn't really do anything except last four and a half minutes. Dozens of scantily clad young women climbing out of the sewers ought to build up to something wild and spectacular....
Posted by: amblongus at June 22, 2004 03:09 PMSounds interesting, where did you hear it?
On MTV ... had no context, didn't know anything about her...
Nigel, yr being a curmudgeon...
Posted by: mark k-p at June 22, 2004 03:27 PMboth of these tracks can be streamed at Fluxblog...
Posted by: henry at June 22, 2004 06:01 PMgot a link to fluxblog - can't seem to goggle it without hitting a stream of pop ups ..
Posted by: mms at June 23, 2004 01:39 PMyeah, I thought 'some girls' was great too...glad it isn't just me...saw it on TOTP (ha!)...always had a soft spot for SC7...
Posted by: Kek-w at June 24, 2004 10:38 PM